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# The &kcc;

Michael
McBride
29/05/2000
2.00.00

This documentation describes KDE's control center.

KDE
kcontrol
configuration
settings
module

## The The KDE Control Center

The The KDE Control Center (from now on referred to simply as "the control center") provides you with a centralized and convenient way to configure all of your KDE settings.

The control center is made up of multiple modules. Each module is a sperate application, but the control center organizes all of these programs into a convenient location.

Each control center module can be executed individually

See section entitled Running individual control center modules for more information.

The KDE Control Center groups the configuration modules into categories, so they are easy to locate. Within each category, the control center shows all the modules in a list, so it is easier to find the right configuration module.

## Using The Control Center

This next section details the use of the control center itself. For information on individual modules, please see Control Center Modules

### Starting the KDE Control Center

The KDE Control Center can be started 3 ways:

1. By selecting K Button System ControlUser Preference from the KDE Panel.

2. By pressing AltF2.

   This will bring up a dialog box. Type `kcontrol`, and click Run.

3. You can type `kcontrol &` at any command prompt.

All three of these methods are equivilent, and produce the same result.

### The KDE Control Center Screen

When you start the control center, you are presented with a window, which can be divided into 3 functional parts.

Colored Rectangles
Screenshot

The KDE Control Center Screen

Across the top is a menubar. The menubar will provide you with quick access to most of kcontrols features. The menus are detailed in The KDE Control Center Menus

Along the left hand side, is a column. This is a where you choose which module to configure. You can learn how to navigate through the modules in the section called Navigating Modules.

The grey box on the lower right side (with the wizard), shows you some useful system information.

In this example, We are running KDE 2.0, we started kcontrol as user mmcbride, the computer is named turtle, it is a Linux system, kernel version 2.2.13, on a Pentium II.

### The KDE Control Center Menus

#### File Menu

The file menu has a single entry.

CtrlQ File Quit

  Closes the control center.

#### View Menu

These options determine how the module selection looks and acts.

View Mode

  Determines whether to use tree view, or list view for your modules.

  With tree view, each submenu appearing as an indented list.

  With list view, when you click on a category, the categories disappear and are replaced with the module list. You then use an up button to return to your categories.

View Icon Size

  Using this option, you can choose small, medium, or large icons to select your modules.

#### Modules Menu

The modules menu, is a shortcut to take you directly to any module in the control center.

#### Help Menu

F1 Help Contents

  Clicking on this, will take you to the top of this document.

CtrlF1 Help What's This?

  Selecting this option, changes the cursor to an arrow with a question mark. Now if you click on any component of the control panel pane, you get short context sensitive help about that item..

  This is the fastest way to get helpful advice on what any of the controls will do.

Help Report Bug...

  If you discover a bug, you can select this option to automatically collect bug information and submit it to the KDE developers.

Help About Kcontrol...

  Selecting this option displays a dialog box containing copyright, author and liscense information.

Help About KDE...

  This will display a dialog box with contact information reguarding the KDE project.

### Exiting The KDE Control Center

You can exit the control center one of three ways:

- Select File Quit from the menu bar.

- Type CtrlQ on the keyboard.

- Click on the Close button on the frame surrounding the control panel.

### Running Individual Modules

You can run individual modules without running kcontrol by selecting K Button Settings from the KDE button. You can then select the module you want to run in the submenus.

## The KDE Control Center Modules

### Navigating Modules

This is a list of the standard configuration modules provided by the KDE base package. Please note that there may be many more modules on your system if you install additional software.

Dr. Konqui |  | File Associations |  | File Manager |  | Windows Shares
Cookies |  | Enhanced Browsing |  | Konqueror Browsing |  | Proxies
User Agent |  | Colors |  | Advanced |  | Background
Borders |  | Desktop |  | Icons |  | Fonts
Key Bindings |  | Panel |  | Screensaver |  | System Notifications
Style |  | Actions |  | Mouse Behavior |  | Keyboard
Mouse |  | Country and Language |  | E-mail |  | Passwords
Talk Configuration |  | Energy |  | Soundserver |  | System Sounds
Login Manager |  | Help Index |  | Soundserver |  | System Sounds

List needs to be updated when final list is available

## Application Modules

### Introduction

The Application Modules section currently consists of a single module:

Dr. Konqui

and a submenu entitled:

System

&drkonqi;

### System

The System Modules section currently consists of a single module:

&loginmanager;

## Browsing Modules

### Introduction

The Browsing Modules section currently consists of four sub-menues:

Files

Help

Neighborhood

Web

### Files

The Files Section currently consists of:

File Associations

File Manager

&fileassoc; &filemanage;

### Help

The Help Section currently consists of a single module:

Help Index

&helpindex;

### Neighborhood

The Neighborhood Section currently consists of one module:

Windows Shares

&winshares;

### Web

The Files Section currently consists of:

Cookies

Enhanced Browsing

Konqueror Browsing

Proxies

User Agent

&cookie; &enhbrowse; &konqbrowse; &proxie; &useragent;

## Information Modules

### Introduction

The information modules consists of:

DMA Channels

Devices

Input/Output Ports

Interrupts

Memory

PCI

Partitions

Processor

SCSI

Samba Status

Sound

X-Server

&dma; &devices; &ioports; &interrupts; &memory; &pci; &partitions; &processor; &scsi; &sambastatus; &soundinfo; &xserver;

## Look and Feel Modules

### Introduction

The Look and Feel modules consists of:

Color

Desktop

Fonts

Key Bindings

Panel

Screensaver

System Notifications

Themes

Window Behaviors

&colors;

### Desktop

The Desktop Section currently consists of:

Advanced

Background

Borders

Desktop

Icons

&advanced; &background; &borders; &desktop; &icon; &fonts; &keybind;

### Panel/Taskbar

The Panel Section currently consists of two modules:

Panel

Taskbar

&panel; &taskbar;

&screensaver; &sysnotify;

### Themes

The Themese Section currently consists of one module:

Style

&style;

### Window Behavior

The Weindow Behavior Section currently consists of:

Actions

Mouse Behavior

&action; &mousebehav;

## Network Modules

### Introduction

The Network Modules section currently consists of a single module:

Talk Configuration

&talk;

## Peripheral Modules

### Introduction

The Peripherals Modules section currently consists of:

Keyboard

Mouse

&kbd; &mouse;

## Personalization Modules

### Introduction

The Personalization Modules section currently consists of:

Country and Language

E-Mail

Passwords

&locale; &email; &password;

## Power Control Modules

### Introduction

The Power Control Modules section currently consists of a single module:

Energy

&energy;

## Sound Modules

### Introduction

The Sound Modules section currently consists of:

Soundserver

System Sounds

&sndserver; &syssounds;

## System Modules

### Introduction

The System Modules section currently consists of one module:

Date and Time

&datetime;

## Credits and License

Kcontrol

Program copyright 1997 The KDE Control Center Developers

Contributors:

- Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel hoelzer@kde.org

- Matthias Elter elter@kde.org

Documentation copyright 2000 Michael McBride mmcbride@ematic.com

Contributors:

- Ellis Whitehead ewhitehe@uni-freiburg.de

- Jost Schenck uzsnty@uni-bonn.de

- Krishna Tateneni tateneni@pluto.njcc.com>

This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.